Hampton Elementary School

Amazing school. The teachers absolutely love the kids and the parents are engaged and supportive. I love this school. One caveat: Principal Kaiser is horrendous. She has no business running a school. Two examples:1) the school is so unsupportive of clubs that the local rec council has stopped supporting programs at Hampton. 2) our neighbors kid rides the bus, which usually arrives by 4:30. At 5:04, our worried neighbor called the school and spoke to Ms. Kaiser directly who said she was too busy to let parents know about the late bus. She needs to be fired.

Great student body and parental involvement. Safe locatopn

Hampton is a fabulous school. It received a 5/5 on the new Maryland public school matrix and with good reason.

We found the administration at Hampton Elementary to be really challenging to work with. Our kids had some good years and some bad years but it just depended on the specific teacher. The administration is clueless as to what goes on in some classrooms and the principal and v.p. can be so rude to parents. The computers are used as babysitters in some classrooms and the administration does not want to acknowledge the changes that came with the computers. Hampton is a beautiful school but because of the admin, it's not much of a community. It doesn't surprise me that minorities don't perform as well on tests (as stated on this website), we saw some minorities treated poorly during our time there. Bullying is part of the culture and it really starts with the principal and v.p. not being able to have clear communication with parents- listening is not their strong suit. Research shows that getting parents involved is what makes schools successful- HES principal and VP just seem to want the scores to be good enough on all the tests. Not much community in that. We have friends in surrounding elementary schools, and they're certainly not perfect either but the level of discourse between parents and administration is so much better than at HES.

Terrible. This school has a terrible bullying issue. A student that I know has a bullying issues at Hampton for years. They have been teased and left out. The school does nothing about it. Sometimes they come home confused and crying. Hampton was a good school, but that seems to be changing.